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Faced with less-than-coherent federal policy, some states are taking independent approaches to the question of illegal immigration. Mark K. Matthews of stateline.org gives Melissa Block a state-by-state rundown.

After 61 days of traveling across Arctic ice on skis, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland complete their unassisted trek to the North Pole — and become the first explorers to do so in winter, during complete darkness. They traveled 620 miles, reaching the North Pole on March 23.

Ohio may not be the first place you think of when it comes to making wine, but a vintner in Cincinnati is turning out respectable lines of vino from a Cincinnati garage. His secret: grapes frozen and trucked in from California's Sonoma and Mendocino valleys.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) is at work on legislation covering a temporary-worker program and giving undocumented immigrants a chance to become legal. And Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) has alternative plans if Specter's effort fails.

Angry over a bill that would crack down on illegal immigrants, marchers support a rival measure that would give legal status to most undocumented immigrants. They're getting a big push from Spanish-language media.

The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. We hear some of their stories.

The Bering Sea may be ice-free in 50 years. If that happens, what happens to its walrus population? Alaska Public Radio's Annie Feidt reports that U.S. and Russian scientists are gathering data to help protect the marine mammals.

Commentator John Moe takes on the word "friend," a big word with a shifting definition. His band, Chicken Starship, has a MySpace page. And among the people listed as their friends are Elvis Costello, The Dixie Chicks, and Lucinda Williams. John knows that They Might Be Giants won't drive him to the airport -- but their friendship has to count for something.

More than 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide enter the U.S. atmosphere each year. Scientists in Baltimore are studying whether backyards help absorb carbon dioxide, and by so doing, slow the pace of climate change.

Novelist Muriel Spark, who died last week at the age of 88, was memorable not just for her writing (including the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), but for her beloved pets.